Netflix’s Dick Johnson Is Dead seems to perfectly balance absurdly comical moments with its melancholic undertone. After all, this is a film about life, just as much as it is about death.
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Netflix’s Dick Johnson Is Dead seems to perfectly balance absurdly comical moments with its melancholic undertone. After all, this is a film about life, just as much as it is about death.
To celebrate IDFA 2020 and this year’s amazing program, we’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite documentaries due for release next year in 2021.
‘I Am Breathing’ is a surreal and moving dichotomy of a man’s story, told through his life and his death, aptly and sensitively portrayed by directors Emma Davie and Louise Oswald, Neil’s widow. Despite what you might expect, a regular dose of dry humour keeps the film lively, almost upbeat and certainly not depressing.
We’ve teamed up with the New York-based Black Documentary Collective (BDC) to bring you our latest Top Docs - ten of the best documentaries made by black directors, as voted by the members of the collective.
Late last year, Documentary Weekly was approached by the Southern Documentary Project filmmaker John Rash, who submitted to us a premiere of his first feature film Negro Terror. Now, tragically, his film has taken on far greater importance.
